oliver : Idioms & Phrases

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david oliver selznick

  • noun United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965)
    Selznick; David O. Selznick.
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joseph oliver

  • noun United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
    Joseph Oliver; Oliver.
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king oliver

  • noun United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
    Joseph Oliver; Oliver.
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oliver cromwell

  • noun English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)
    Cromwell; Ironsides.
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oliver ellsworth

  • noun United States jurist and the third chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1807)
    Ellsworth.
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oliver goldsmith

  • noun Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774)
    Goldsmith.
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oliver hardy

  • noun United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
    Hardy.
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oliver hazard perry

  • noun United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)
    Perry; Commodore Perry.
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oliver heaviside

  • noun English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)
    Heaviside.
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oliver stone

  • noun United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
    Stone.
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oliver wendell holmes

  • noun United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894)
    Holmes.
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oliver wendell holmes jr.

  • noun United States jurist noted for his liberal opinions (1841-1935)
    Holmes.
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sir oliver joseph lodge

  • noun English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
    Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
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sir oliver lodge

  • noun English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
    Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
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